On Saturday, 15 December 2012 at 03:41:12 UTC, Kapps wrote:
My biggest issue with using something like this would be the
lack of Linux support, and the lack of source code available.
From what I understand, your wrapper originally didn't have
source code available, but now does? Personally, I'm not too
concerned about Awesomium itself charging for the source code,
but I would consider including any third party library that you
don't have the source code for and isn't *very* well known in
your code that you don't have the source for to be
irresponsible.
As for the Linux support, as far as I understand RC3 is
expected have Linux support, and Awesomium itself does support
Linux. Games like Heroes of Newerth and Overgrowth use it, and
both of those support Linux. It seems like RC1 supported only
Windows, RC2 Mac + Windows, and RC3 all three?
I hadn't heard of Awesomium before your post, and it actually
seems quite interesting. I was originally intending to make my
own OpenGL UI library when I reached the point where my
programs / game needed an actual UI, but something like this
seems like it would be really nice. That being said, that's
still a long ways away, so this is mostly future thoughts.
awesomium has only 1.6.5 build for linux, it has their own C API
so you could start with it right now. version 1.7 don't have
linux build and public(!) C API(but it still in the shared libs),
but maybe final release would have linux build again.
also i've read somewhere that they give source by demand to
licensees.
i was thinking to do my own OpenGL UI too, but then i've done
some tests with offscreen browsers and find this way more
convinient, flexible and feature rich with a trade off just a
little more memory usage, this is especially not a big price for
a rich game ui.
i pushed repo to hosting, but it's still too raw to use in non
testing/learning apps. it has some flaws in memory management and
string interop between D/C++. lack of documentation, code
comments and examples would make incredibly hard to use it for
anyone who don't know D and Awesomium. and that's what i'm gonna
change once i had some free time. i think i can push commits
every 2-3 days, and finish most of the job on winter holidays...
